The hidden dangers of loading open-source AI models (ARBITRARY CODE EXPLOIT!)

Yannic Kilcher Videos (Audio Only)

#huggingface #pickle #exploit

Did you know that something as simple as loading a model can execute arbitrary code on your machine?

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Get the code: https://github.com/yk/patch-torch-save

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OUTLINE:

0:00 - Introduction

1:10 - Sponsor: Weights & Biases

3:20 - How Hugging Face models are loaded

5:30 - From PyTorch to pickle

7:10 - Understanding how pickle saves data

13:00 - Executing arbitrary code

15:05 - The final code

17:25 - How can you protect yourself?

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